Statistics For Business & Economics 3rd Edition  (English, Paperback, Hooda)

First published in 1994, the book has gained popularity for its clarity. It provides firm grounding in the basics of statistics, especially to those who have had no prior formal exposure to the subject. This thoroughly revised edition is designed according to the new curriculum of the UGC and is particularly useful for students of commerce, economics and management.

Table of Contents
Defining Statistics - Scope and Related Issues ? Statistical Data - Collection and Presentation ? Summarizing Data - Concepts, Issues, and Procedure ? Summary Measures-I - Measures of Central Tendency ? Summary Measures-II - Measures of Dispersion ? Summary Measures-III - Skewness and Kurtosis ? Regression and Correlation-I - The Two-Variable Linear Case ? Regression and Correlation-II - The Three-Variable Linear Case ? Index Numbers - Price, Quantity, and Value Indices ? Time Series Analysis - Components and Decomposition ? Business Forecasting - A Brief on Issues and Techniques ? A Prelude to Probability - Concepts, Definitions, and Postulates ? The Basic Probability Rules - And Bayesian Theorem ? Discrete Probability Distributions - Uniform, Binomial, and Poisson ? The Normal Distribution ? A Brief on Sampling - Concepts and Methods ? Sampling Distributions-I - Large Sampling ? Sampling Distributions-II - Small Sampling ? Statistical Estimation - Issues and Methods ? Statistical Testing-I Concepts, Issues, and Methods ? Statistical Testing-II - Testing Procedure and the Tests ? Non-Parametric Testing-I - The Chi-Square Tests ? Non-Parametric Testing-II - Other Non-Parametric Tests ? Statistical Quality Control ? Appendices ? Statistical Tables ? Other Useful Tables ? Index